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The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below.

The applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The applications will also be available for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States.

Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than March 23, 2012.

1. SCBT Financial Corporation, Columbia, South Carolina; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Peoples Bancorporation, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of The Peoples National Bank, both in Easley, South Carolina, Bank of Anderson, NA, Anderson, South Carolina, and Seneca National Bank, Seneca, South Carolina.

1. United Group of Central Florida II, LLC, Longwood, Florida, to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Citizens Bancorp of Oviedo, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Citizens Bank of Florida, both in Oviedo, Florida.